Adam Bosworth: I'm not the huge fan of REST that I think many in the ebpml.org world and elsewhere are. I love the ease and simplicity of REST, but once one assumes messaging is the correct paradigm, then there is need for an envelope to carry along the metadata used to correlate the message responses with the requests since this may no longer be a synchronous request/response. Secondly, in the world I'm describing, as I'll be making clear in future posts, a fair amount of information has to come in the request in order to enable the service to synchronize its response. This isn't possible if the request is limited to a URL which is limited by most systems to 2K bytes. Thus I think the argument that the REST folks make for all queries being GET's is impractical.

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iPod's Dirty Secret - Neistat Brothers

Don't you LOVE when the anti-marketing machine is as slick as the marketing machine!

Here's what i've learned from Tim's critique of Clay's critique of Semantic Web: It's ok to not try to boil the ocean.

It is unjust to dismiss a grand theory as falure when small-scale applications of such theory may succeed. Tim points to exposing machine-readable financial statements as one such application. I can think of other small-scale applications...

Linux. The future is open. - IBM's marketing machine continues to impress...

Critical Section - The Emperor's New Code - bookmarking a nice summary of latest PDC

Tim: "essays on the construction, deployment and use of search technology, by which I mean primarily “full-text” search."

eetee - JXTA secured groups & BitTorrent-Gnutella-OpenNap-eDonkey

eetee does to p2p what trillian does to IM

Ted has joined Chandler team to work their repository and querying.

Bookmarking for future read:
Clay talks about semantic web:
Shirky: The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview

Tim picks up

From internal mailing list:
This is from Microsoft, and describes when to write an exception, what to put in it (the type of constructors, attributes, etc, etc) and also includes a utility to test the exceptions in your assemblies. Short and sweet. Highly recommended.


The Well-Tempered Exception

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